By Alec MacGillis
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- One could detect, at first, the slightest bit of confusion and letdown in the huge crowd gathered on a glorious sunny day under the Spanish oaks: they had been waiting in very long lines for more than an hour to see the biggest new political sensation in years, and now they were getting...John Kerry?
But a moment later, the import of Kerry's presence at the Barack Obmama rally at the College of Charleston set in -- even for the vast majority who were unaware of Kerry's oh-so-valuable voter mailing list -- and they cheered the affirmation of Obama by at least one pillar of the national Democratic establishment.
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